+1 for sharing it github (although git sucks ;)
have you actually read the glimpse of heaven article?
the tone of your comment made me suspicious... :/
i have basic, z80/x86/pic asm, forth, pascal, c, rebol, bash, awk, ruby, js experience. i've seen the game of life live coding demo a few years ago and also played with j while it was still closed source. to put it into perspective, im only 38yrs old.
after reading this glimpse of heaven apl article, its vibe hit me so im circling back to apl for the 3rd day already. i find it fun and elegant. the the keyboard layout is not an issue either; ⍳⍴×←=⍺⍵⌈⌊ were all very natural after a few minutes.
i would say, u would benefit greatly from learning apl.
it's definitely not the past.
cool shit is coming up and you will be left out if the only thing is c++ which you are comfortable with...
also it sounds quite heart breaking how you discount your grandfather's work...
kinda disrespectful... and you are even wasting his time left on earth by recommending him to learn python? just spend a few hours with apl and it should be clear to you too why did he say python sucks. maybe try to implement a bit of his code in python or on a spreadsheet. that should be quite informative (and probably transformative) too.
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+1 for sharing it github (although git sucks ;) have you actually read the glimpse of heaven article? the tone of your comment made me suspicious... :/
i have basic, z80/x86/pic asm, forth, pascal, c, rebol, bash, awk, ruby, js experience. i've seen the game of life live coding demo a few years ago and also played with j while it was still closed source. to put it into perspective, im only 38yrs old.
after reading this glimpse of heaven apl article, its vibe hit me so im circling back to apl for the 3rd day already. i find it fun and elegant. the the keyboard layout is not an issue either; ⍳⍴×←=⍺⍵⌈⌊ were all very natural after a few minutes.
i would say, u would benefit greatly from learning apl. it's definitely not the past.
just have a look at the nile language for example: https://raw.github.com/wiki/damelang/nile/socal.pdf
bret victor wrote a nice interactive visualizer for it in js: http://tinlizzie.org/dbjr/high_contrast.html
cool shit is coming up and you will be left out if the only thing is c++ which you are comfortable with...
also it sounds quite heart breaking how you discount your grandfather's work... kinda disrespectful... and you are even wasting his time left on earth by recommending him to learn python? just spend a few hours with apl and it should be clear to you too why did he say python sucks. maybe try to implement a bit of his code in python or on a spreadsheet. that should be quite informative (and probably transformative) too.